Bach digital -

Various occasions

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Genre

Scoring

Soli: S (Momus), A (Mercurius), T I (Tmolus), T II (Midas), B I (Phoebus), B II (Pan), Trumpet I, Trumpet II, Trumpet III, Timpani, Traverse flute I, Traverse flute II, Oboe I, Oboe II, Oboe d'amore, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Basso continuo

Date of origin, Work history

Herbst 1729

Date of composition Fall 1729 (handwriting styles and watermark of the autograph score); subsequent performance around 1736–1740 (autograph handwriting styles parts) as well as 1749 (copy of text). Movement 7 is reused in BWV 212/20. In the autograph score, there is a draft for a discarded opening chorus for BWV 149 (NBA Suppl., page 166, P. Wollny, 2011)

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Libretto

C. F. Henrici. Text print: Picander 1732, page 501; undated single print (Der Streit | Zwischen | PHOEBUS und PAN | in einem | DRAMATE | aufgeführt | Von | J. S. Bach. [The Dispute | Between | PHOEBUS and PAN | in a | DRAMA | performed | By | J. S. Bach.]), likely before 1732 (Schabalina BJ 2008). Text copy by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and Johann Christian Bach with autograph entries (at D-B: P 175). Title page: Drama | per la Musica. | betittult | Der Streit | zwischen | Phoebus und Pan. | Personen | […] | 1749 [Drama | for Music. | titled | The Dispute | between | Phoebus and Pan. | Characters | […] | 1749]

Original lyrics

RUS-SPsc 6.35.1.410 [Textdruck]